Hello,

the next mrw44 gig is on Monday 28th November (to hell with Mogwai!
if you bought a ticket for that already, you clearly lack imagination
but you can redeem yourself by selling it on ebay, making a fortune,
and coming to our gig instead, getting pissed, buying some cool
merch, etc and you'll probably still have some money left! or you can
just give all the money back to one-in-four, it's for charity after
all, but you don't have to attend the gig!).

Also, if you really can't do Neptune, scroll down past the
description, there's other gig recommendations... I'll actually add a
menu to make things easier:
a) mrw44 presents Neptune, Mon 28th November at the Subway
b) other mrw44 gigs (Whip / Stinking Lizaveta) + gigs now starting at
Henry's Cellar Bar
c) another gig recommendations for this week: Giant Tank presents
Justice Yeldham tonight at Henry's Cellar Bar
d) yet another gig recommendation: Cold Dead Hands presents Red Stars
Parade, Flatland and more at the Subway on Friday.

Cheers

Claire


a) mrw44 presents -
NEPTUNE + MUSCLETUSK + USURPER + VISITOR Q
Mon 28th Nov at the Subway, 69 the Cowgate, Edinburgh
Doors 7.30pm, £4 / £3 for mailing-list members + their friends

NEPTUNE: Filthy improv noise from Boston outfit Neptune and their
home-made instruments. See more detailed description below.

MUSCLETUSK: they refuse to be described, so you'll have to come and
check for yourselves. They played their first ever show as support to
Noxagt in Glasgow last month, and have already been offered to
release their first album on the Giant Tank label. And they're a lot
better than Usurper :)

USURPER: Nigh-inaudible disabled instruments, etc, you know the
script by now...

VISITOR Q: Doom electronics. Slow-motion beats, heavy drones and gut-
shunting sub bass from one half of Dirty Husband.

More info about NEPTUNE:
http://www.misterrecords.com/neptune/FrameSet.html
Neptune's origins trace to 1994 as a student art project by
sculptor/musician Jason Sanford, who, in order to create a new music
medium while simultaneously destroying the posture of five young men,
forged heavy, menacing-looking guitars and drums out of circular saw
blades, gas tanks, oil drums, bike parts, VCR casings and
miscellaneous scrap metal found in the trash. Neptune was assembled
to showcase these Harry-Parch-goes-to-Thunderdome contraptions in the
winter of the same year and has evolved into a full time band that
has traversed the US and Europe, reaching as far as Croatia and
Flagstaff, Arizona. The early guitars were haphazard and untunable,
resulting in the atonal garage clamor of the early recordings. With
several different members and collaborators over the years, the music
has evolved with the instruments blending the traditional sounds
of Rock & Roll with what sounds like mistake day at the ball bearing
factory. The current three-piece lineup relies as heavily on home-
made electronics as it does it's signature scrap metal instruments.
With less guys and more gear, Neptune rocks like The Fall, clangs
like Neubauten and drones like Faust with improvised and not-so-
improvised songs that you can almost dance to.

Jason Sanford - baritone guitar, oscillator organ, electric thumb
piano, bass, small electric spring, vocals
Mark Pearson - baritone guitar, 4 string slide, bass, oscillators,
large electric spring, percussion, vocals
Daniel Boucher - drums, electric floor tom, telegraph noise box, bass
dulcimer, contact mics, vocals

BANDS THEY'VE PLAYED WITH (you'll notice quite a few we've put on
before, or are about to put on, or at least tried to put on):
The Ex (4x), Liars (2x), Oneida (5x), Lightning Bolt (7x),
Electrelane (2x), Flaming Lips Boombox Experiment, Zu (2x), Sixteens
(2x), The Evens, USAISAMONSTER (5x), Blonde Redhead, Numbers, Gang
Gang Dance, Enon, Dave Philips (2x), Erase Errata, Crack We Are Rock,
Melt Banana, Uz Jsme Doma, Arab on Radar (5x), Wolf Eyes, 25 Suaves,
The Phantom Limbs (6x), The Fleshies (2x), Stinking Lizaveta, Party
of Helicopters, The Centimeters (5x), Gogogo Airheart, The Apes,
Noxagt, Tunnel of Love (+8x), Sightings (2x), Six Finger Satellite,
Roger Miller, James Chance & the Contortions, Can't/Jessica Rylan
(+6X), Parts and Labor (6x), Fat Day, Nautical Almanac, Silent Block,
Daughters, Crank Sturgeon (4x), Ex-Models, XBXRX...

b) More mrw44 gigs: Stinking Lizaveta are finally making it back to
our shores, playing at the Subway on 10th January, put that date in
your diaries now! more details nearer the time.

Closer to us, the next mrw44 gig will be at Henry's Cellar Bar, I'll
be putting on a few gigs there from December onwards, drop me a line
if you're interested. Other promoters are welcome to apply too,
please get in touch... I'll still be taking bookings for the Subway
(there again PLEASE get in touch with me rather than the Subway if
you want to play or put something on, email mrw44contact-
members@... or call 07901893052, I'll call you back if I miss
your call). Anyway, first mrw44 gig at Henry's is this one:

Thu 8th December:
WHIP + MY KAPPA ROOTS + more tbc, doors 7.30pm, £4 / £3 for mailing-
list members and their friends.

The fourth Resonant album release of 2005, and one that further
illustrates the diversity of the label's loose agenda: Whip is the
solo project of Timesbold's Jason Merritt, and functions as an outlet
for some of his less band-orientated musings; those that are better
served by more sparse, minimal arrangements.

His second full-length as Whip, "Atheist Lovesongs To God" is the
result of a prolonged period of solitude towards the end of 2003
when, having just returned from a tour with Timesbold, Merritt simply
shut himself into his home in Brooklyn, New York, and stayed there.
The recurring theme throughout the album is hinted at in the title;
Whip's inability to allow any sort of God into his life, while
harbouring an overwhelming need for the sense of solace and security
that it may provide, resulting in a collection of songs that he
claims are the closest thing he has found to divinity.

The album is full of musical and literary reference points, and while
the vocals are instantly reminiscent of Will Oldham, the quality of
the songs and the overall package here render comparisons futile.

In a climate where the likes of Micah P Hinson and Hayden can achieve
such success and acclaim, the potential for this album is limitless,
with a full press push strengthening the cause...

* THE WIRE (OCT 2005 ISSUE): 'Bare-wire folk songs delivered in a
tremulous voice that runs a close second to Will Oldham's in it's
ability to evoke both desolation and resigned world-weariness'.

* 4/5 REVIEW IN UPDATE (SEPT 14): 'Alt-country not to be taken
lightly'.

* FLUX MAGAZINE (SEPT/OCT 2005): 'This is a beautifully honest record,
soaked in whisky and wonder. If Whip needs acceptance, Oldham and his
chums should spare them a stool'.

* COMES WITH A SMILE MAGAZINE (AUTUMN 2005): 'A rich, personal vision
of Americana folk that is as intimate as if it were recorded in your
living room'.

* 5/5 REVIEW ON BABYSUE/LMNOP (CLEVELAND USA): 'Beautiful tracks
like "One For Fire, "Reckless Goodness" and "Father" make this album
a superb spin".

* REVIEW ON ANGRY APE : "Pretty much a perfect
album; equal parts comfort, pain, hope and confusion, Atheist
Lovesongs to God is a collection of real songs that will crawl under
your skin and make their home there'.

* REVIEW ON LESCHOSES.COM (FRANCE): "...they have a force which can,
at any moment, touch the listener'.

c) the first gig at the newly refurbished Henry's Cellar Bar is
tonight (refurbishing is not even completed yet so that only makes
the gig more diy, please come along and enjoy the diy experience
before it gets completely refurbished).

Wednesday 16th November 2005, Henry's Cellar Bar, Morrison Street,
Edinburgh.
Doors= 7:30pm (First act on at 7:45pm.) cost= £5 (£4 in advance.)
Tickets available from Avalanche Records.

JUSTICE YELDHAM= AKA Lucas Abela. Australian madman responsible for
the Dual Plover label plays sheets of glass with his face. Expect
free-noise, saliva and open wounds. Aye, really. see below for
testamony.

WOUNDED KNEE= Cask strength electrohypnol and shroom damaged folk
croonings by Lapsed Electronics head-honcho.

CK DEXTER HAVEN vs. DORA DOLL= Sinewave manipulating Giant Tank-ette
goes head-to-head with Decaer Pinga's first lady of noise.

USURPER vs. DADDO= Nigh-inaudible disabled instrument improv jams duo
clash with DIY electronics hardcase.

AND LAST MINUTE ADDITION... GREEN MIST!!!= Live whupping and autopsy
of walkman corpses by Brighton Canadian (ex-) moustacheman from the
Chocolate Monk noise stable.

d) Cold Dead Hands gig, I'll just paste the info:

Friday 18th November @ The Subway, Cowgate, Edinburgh. 7:30pm, £5

Red Stars Parade [Leeds]
As a collective, it's Seldom we find the music press covering the
same ground as ourselves, but such is the weight of praise for Leed's
Red Stars from sources we know you guys love, we thought we'd share:

"...with just one spin of this stunning debut later, and you'll
realise just how redundant words are with a band like this... it's
highly unlikely that any amount of explanation or insight could
account for 'Disko's brink-of-the-abyss onslaught without selling it
short." Kerrang - KKKK

"You need something heavy yet ethereal, crushing notes lighter than
the fetid air. You need long songs that soothe and shred in equal
measure, a singer's voice piercing yet beautiful in its desire to
soar higher and higher... because this is music that is all about
capturing one dark moment. You need Red Stars Parade." Rock Sound

"...a highly engaging record... RSP are moody, far from shallow, and
affecting if you let them in. Which, rest assured, is not hard."
Terrorizer

But never fear Underground Dwellers, mainstream music hacks aren't
the only ones who love them….

"...what some people are calling the best band in the country at the
moment in terms of sheer legwork and guts as well as having some of
the most strikingly delivered songs the UK underground has heard in a
long while... Investigate into this if you are sick of the current
swathe of haircuts and beatdowns, and want something which goes
against the grain without giving one solitary fuck." ninehertz.co.uk

Flatlands
The Foibles in question I presume are referring to the long mournful
introspective periods of quiet ambiance. By process of elimination
that means the follys are the shockingly heavy eruptions that come
trundling out like some giant doom war machine.

Naked Shit
Guitar tuned to G, Tim from Among the Missing will be showcasing his
more restrained "drone" project Naked Shit. The "defecation" demo was
a two CD set, one containing guitar drone, the other vocal drone.
Whether you enjoyed them together or individually was entirely up to
you. To call this Drone of course does this a disservice, there's
dynamics, shifts and although it may be slightly disturbing it's
certainly not dull.

IX [Edinburgh]
"Isis meets Boris… they create an intense atmosphere that leaves the
listener anticipating the overall outcome above impressive cresendos
and gutteral growls."